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W. Wellings
When rain comes on up you may jump ...
[London] : Publishd March 20th 1786 by W. Wellings No. 44 Wardour Street Soho, [1786]
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image: 192 x154 mm; sheet: 243 x 178 mm
Peel 1568
Notes
With four lines of verse below image, which continue: And sit secure on Biddy's rump / Like yonder little natty fellow / Who makes her hat his umberellour.
Print numbered "6" at lower left, indicating that the plate was in probability issued as one of a numbered suite of caricatures.
Not in George's BM Satires.
Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Print numbered "6" at lower left, indicating that the plate was in probability issued as one of a numbered suite of caricatures.
Not in George's BM Satires.
Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows a woman holding a parasol, facing left, fashionably attired in a gown with an enormous padded rump, upon which a man sits happily in the shade of her wide brimmed hat.
Associated names
Wellings, W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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